介绍:
Leading doctor Richard Smith has claimed that cancer is the best way to die and that researchers should stop wasting billions trying to find a cure.
Smith, a former editor of the prestigious British Medical Journal has explained that dying from cancer will allow sufferers the luxury of time to set their affairs straight, be with family members, visit places and reflect on life before they die.
While he had stated that most people wish for a quick death, he explains that a quick death can be very difficult for the deceased's loved ones to cope with.
Dr. Smith also advised patients to stay away from overambitious oncologists. His comments were criticised with Cancer Research UK's chief clinician, Prof. Peter Johnson stating that cancer takes far too many people far too young.
(JA) Joseph Spiteri from timesofmalta.com comments
Normally the aging process and the eventual frailty that comes with it would be enough to help people to reflect on their past, visit certain places etc. etc. One does not really need to get cancer to get into this frame of mind Mr Smith.
(QD) R Mif sud from timesofmalta.com comments
Whilst I understand and respect his view and agree in part of his argument. It is very dangering suggesting to keep away from certain oncologist. Medicine has never stopped striving to find cure to illnesses. In some it managed, in others it managed to control it. Hope is always the last thing to die. The most important thing is to live every day that life gives us in serenity and in harmony with each other, than we should accept what fate has for us.
(FA) AIM from express.co.uk comments
This idiot shouldn't be allowed to practice as a doctor if those are his views. I hope he gets his wish and would dearly love to see how he handles a slow, undignified, painful death. He may have qualifications as a doctor but he certainly doesn't have any as a human being.
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Notes:
· Dr Richard Smith said disease was the best way to die in a blog post
· Leading doctor said cancer was preferable to sudden death or dementia
· Added researchers should stop spending billions trying to find a cure
· Dr Smith's controversial views have split opinion on social media sites
He said: "The long slow death from dementia may be the most awful as you are slowly erased, but then again when death comes it may be just a light kiss.
"Death from organ failure - respiratory, cardiac, or kidney - will have you far too much in hospital and in the hands of doctors.
"So death from cancer is the best ... You can say goodbye, reflect on your life, leave last messages, perhaps visit special places for a last time, listen to favourite pieces of music, read loved poems, and prepare, according to your beliefs, to meet your maker or enjoy eternal oblivion.
This is, I recognise, a romantic view of dying, but it is achievable with love, morphine, and whisky.
But stay away from overambitious oncologists, and let's stop wasting billions trying to cure cancer, potentially leaving us to die a much more horrible death."
· Thousands die each year from cancer across the UK.
· A similar case comes( in September last year) from a prominent US doctor(Ezekiel J Emanuel) credited as the architect of Barack Obama's healthcare reform for America, ObamaCare, has said longevity is overrated and that he hopes to die at 75.
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(JA) mrs from dailymail.co.uk comments
I would rather go suddenly.we should stop finding a cure for cancer..making people live longer has meant there are more older people= more pensions to pay out but not enough money in the pot to give all the old folks. This is why we have to work longer. It will put pressure on family,people will live to100 and unable to look after themselves a 90 year old will have the body of a 60 year old due to cures and tablets but nothing can cure the mind once you lose it:not recognising family not know who you are or where you are.so continue to cure people and folks will be sat in nursing homes with no mind but with a younger body cured of ailments.
(QD) betrayed from express.co.uk comments
He's actually telling it like it is..there is no cure for cancer…months of painful treatment may get you a few more months or even years but there is no cure and probably never will be….every few months they announce a breakthrough but nothing ever changes…
(FA) old jake from dailymail.co.uk comments
the world is becoming over-crowded and more is spent on keeping people alive and live longer, eventually there'll be no room left for the healthy folks of this earth, and just for info I'm an ex cancer suffer after surgery almost 20 years ago and still suffer from the after-effects.
